GREAT ACCESSORIES MAKE GREAT DENIMS
Accessories are important components that shape, change, and renew the story of denim. The o#er nowadays is especially strengthened by metal accessories, which are an excellent opportunity to recreate jeans by adding exciting innovations and features in design and sustainability. WeAr gives a closer look at the latest works of some leading accessory companies.
Riri’s brand Cobrax creates denim buttons and rivets. Their jeans buttons collection is associated with gold, palladium, nickel free satin, and ruthenium "nishing, combined with refined profiles and shapes. It also features vintage items in stainless steel, recycled brass, and copper, with a rougher approach. Timay & Tempo’s S/S 2023 collection reflects this trend in their ‘Verdigris’ line, which takes its name from the greenish pigment. It features buttons and rivets stylized with matte brass, gold shade, and replaceable buttons in screw design. Additionally, their ‘Sundial’ line encompasses gold brass buttons with complementing gold zip stoppers and sew labels.
YKK widens its commitment to circularity and sustainability through a collection of two zippers and a button made with ‘Econyl’ regenerated nylon. This circular material, made from nylon waste, is manufactured by synthetic "bre producer Aquafil SpA and supplied in collaboration with Tokyo-based trade company Itochu Corporation. Recycling is not a trend contained to fabrics but also found in accessories as this collection is built on YKK’s ‘Nation’ range, which includes materials made form PET bottles, old "bre and polyester remnants.
Also, Cobrax presents sustainable treatments and natural materials, from recycled nylon buttons to over-injections of bio-based polyurethane and sewing buttons realized in bio-resin. The selection of the accessories is associated with specific sustainable techniques, such as PVD, and the inclusion of natural materials, such as rice husk powder, cork, and recycled hemp, mono-material which can be easily disassembled from clothes.
Leading woven tapes and fashion accessories supplier Nastrificio Victor, provides some of the world’s tops brand, including the ones in the denim industry, with tapes, cords, braids, colored ribbons and bows, trims and piping. Its S/S 2023 collection reflects the current gender identity movement and adapts fibres, colors, prints, and embroideries to a fluidity concept. It displays sonorous colors, from gender-neutral styles to new elegant shades of gray and elemental outdoor shades, starting with baby pastels and lightly colored neutrals, but also lighter ranges and ultra-light colors. The company also focusses on circularity as part of its environmental responsibility.
Metal accessories are constantly being reinterpreted with a new design approach in line with denim trends. In the examples above, innovative developments and digital presentations appear effectively in collections; besides, functionality and sustainability issues stand out.